State

Lunda Empire

Also known as Lunda Kingdom, Lunda

The Lunda Empire was a Central African state in the south of the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo and parts of Angola and Zambia, flourishing from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. Its kingship drew on Luba political models, and it expanded through a flexible system of tributary chiefdoms. It traded copper, ivory and slaves across the region and took part in the Atlantic trade.

Lunda Empire
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Mentioned in 3 profiles

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Mentioned in 8 state histories

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APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). Lunda Empire. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/lunda-empire
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“Lunda Empire.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/lunda-empire. Accessed .
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The Epoch Institute. “Lunda Empire.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/lunda-empire.
Harvard
The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Lunda Empire’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/lunda-empire (Accessed: ).

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